...is not anything very advanced, but it has a set of features that I cannot find combined in a single PDA. It has:
PalmOS
A color, 24-bit, at least 320x240, nice looking screen
A compactflash, type 1 or 2, slot
The closest to what I want is the Handera (ex TRG) PDA, that has the compact flash slot, but it has no color screen. The Clie and Palm use those Memory Stick and SD/MMC respectively. And then, of course, there are the Casios and Compaqs who don't have PalmOS. Why can't they build such a simple handheld? In the meantime, I will wait to replace my old Palm III.
Whatever it is that comes on these shiny round things I get from the music store...that's the one I use.
Are you sure you don't mean "used to come on these shiny round things"? I, for one, don't know what they are selling on the CD stores these days, but I am sure many of these round things are not "Compact Disc Digital Audio"
Yup, right on there. And you should add that if they had a independent group that made the same discoveries at around the same time, and cannot show any prior art there is no advantadge to them, the patent goes to the first who fills it.
...is that we don't see this kind of thing everyday. I mean, who develops a great amount of new technology? Universities. I would say that they spend much more money on research than companies (granted: many companies pays big dollars to universities to do the research for them, in exchange of the patents). And who is always suing because of patent infringements? Companies.
There is something wrong here. It is the case that there are many more university patents out there, but they don't have the money to sue those who ingringe them, or it's the case that there are more company patents out there, in this case we should ask ourselves why universities are patenting so little. (Ok, one answer is that universities don't patent trivial stuff, while companies do it in order to obtain revenue from licensing and lawsuits instead of really developing products).
In any one of the two cases, there is something fundamentally wrong with this system, and it's not necessary to argue if our patent system is really fair to notice this.
Programming is engineering. Programming can *also* be art.
Elegance is art. Its all about how you define "art". When someone comes up with an ingenious way of doing something that there are very rigid rules to do it, without disobeying these rules but using them in an innovative way, I dont know how you call it, but I call art. It can be applied to any area of human knowledge, from painting to space shuttle building. Why do we insist that engineering and art cannot co-exist? Its interesting that Knuth called his book "The Art of Computer Programming", and then wrote thousand pages documenting programming. I take it as a good indication that art and engineering are not mutually exclusive.
I believe programming is both art and science. Like mathmatics. For one side it is obviously "science", but some people will never learn math, no matter the method you use to teach them. Some great mathematicians have a very unique way of approaching problems, and that is what makes them great mathematicians. Is it art? Maybe. About theoreticians, I agree 100% with you.
There is this great misconception that just because one is a great programmer he does not need real training as a computer scientist. This is due to the fact that most people think of a BS in CS as a formal education as a IT worker, so one who thinks he is a great programmer thinks that a BSCS wont really add anything usefull to him, except for the diploma.
The fact is that Computer Science is not only about becoming a IT worker. Its about using computers to solve problems, and about designing these computers to solve this problems. And about understanding and modeling the problems to begin with. There are actually great programmers who are mediocre computer scientists, great computer scientists who are mediocre programmers (usually of the thoretic cs kind), and great it workers who are great computer scientists (and really shitty programmers and Computer Scientists). And since these are different things, that is why it takes about 5 years to graduate a computer scientist.
Sometimes, a programmer who "learned CS" by his own, has acquired many bad habits that he would not have acquired if he had any formal training ("goto statement considered harmfull" comes to mind), and design rules, software engineering, etc. By the other side, self-learned IT professionals have a much more "getting the work done" attitude, and finding things out by himself, which is *extremely* usefull in industry.
So the idea is that one thing complements the other, and yes, it would be nice for anyone who works with technology without a formal training to really spend the time *learning* CS.
For all those moderating the posts about setting up a RAID system as 'Redundant', please think first if such moderation is not 'Redundant' itself, since RAID is obviously 'Redundant'. Hmm. OK, it could be RAID-0, but noone is talking about stripping.:)
Not only you are right, but also any communication equipment connected to the phone network must be licensed by the local communications agency. This happens in many countries. Most of them will never bother to go after people connecting linmodems on the phone network, but some countries are very rigid in this control. This licensing, or approvement, must apply to the communication equipment as a whole. You can't license only the hardware part of software modems, since many times is the software that will decide the line levels to be used. (In Lucent winmodems, these levels are selected via AT commands, when you select the country you are in. This is done via software). This process is necessary to avoid people connecting devices to the phone network that could ruin the network.
So, in short, even if we don't worry with the patent issues of v.xx, we still have to worry on licensing the linmodem software, but since free software can always be modified, there will always have a non-approved version of it, which can cause legal problems.
Exactly. As long as they are distributing a new version, they should make the source available. If we reach the cold end of the universe, they do not need to provide further upgrades;)
The product page says " 6 Month Linux DA O/S Software Upgrade", but if it's based on free software, I should always be able to download the latest source and install on the handheld, at least for the kernel, which is obviously GPLd.
Actually, you can use it, with ext2 *and* ext3. The ACL group implemented ACLs as extended attributes, that can also be used for metadata (icons, mime types, whatever):
...their students inventions, they will not be motivated to have students to advice in the first place, and all innovation of the world, and civilization as we know it, will end.
The way to deal with the DMCA is not to pretend it does not exists, but to show how ridiculous it is, and that means obeying it and showing how it limits development. You cannot think about computer security without considering the legal aspects. Of course full disclosure would be better, but at what price?
Cox could *actually* go to jail in his next visist to the USA in case he did it. (Think not? Dimitry also didn't believe it could happen.) I am sure you can get the information of what was changed in the kernel by other means (linux-kernel?), but it is very important to be registered in the log that we are being limited by the DMCA. I don't know, perhaps in a nicer future someone will look back at these logs and ask why he didn't describe the problems, and then they will remember how the abuse of corporate power has changed law in a uncostitutional and limiting way.
We are not talking about boys playing in a BBS, we are talking about real men with real families, people important in our community, that could go to jail because of stupid laws in the lack of this responsability.
I can already "drag and drop" files to a CDRW that will be read in Windows, MacOS, and Linux, with DirectCD, or packet-cd on Linux. Microsoft even wants to include CD writing tools in Windows, so I guess soon you will not even need DirectCD. The same goes to Apple. So why is this "revolutionary" new format necessary?
The same people who teach you how its dishonest to steal other peoples code, teach you how it is important "code reuse".
Most of the time, you will not have to come up with a very beautiful solution to a problem already solved, you will only have to find out which is the existent solution that best fits the problem. Thats what I use as a guide to my education, I try to learn the basic about a lot of things, so I know what to use when I have a problem. After all, one of the reasons of calling it computer *science* is because we stand on the shoulders of all who came before (most mathematicians, physicists, engineers) and improve the stuff they built.
My politics on "lending" code for classmates to use on university is as follows. I can give my code for you to take a look, as long as you will hear for me what I was thinking while I wrote it, and understand what I think is nice and what I think are hacks, and try to correct the hacks. Sometimes I check tasks based on code form me that are really nice some semesters later. It usually works, in that at least the person learns/knows how the code works. It is often said that the only way to learn a computer language is to write programs with it, but if you dont have good algorithms to implement in this language, your programs will suck. So I add that it is also important to check out other peoples code to see how they implemented theyr solutions. That is one of the most important aspects of free software, that is many times overlooked: education.
...I was stopped at JFK airport because they couldn't figure out what I was carrying. They could only see two almost empty boxes except for a very dark area on the X-Ray machine, and some wires coming out of it. They probably thought "someone set up us the bomb" (TM), but it actually was a pair of Labtec computer speakers. Very fine speakers, I use them since 95 without problems. But It really got me confused to explain to them what I was carrying. (english is not my native language). I also had a HD with me, but at my pocket not my backpack, so it didn 't go through the monitor, only the metal detector. Not any problem with it also, I still use it.
...are inside attacks. That is, not to garantee that the system is immune to crackers, but that it is immune to attacks by the government. Unfortunately, we don't have that second garantee here in Brazil, where we had an election with 100% of electronic ballots last year. The worse is that government won't allow researchers to audit those ballots.
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...also related to infrastructure, can be found here. It's so interesting to compare what both have done to the internet.;)
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...is not anything very advanced, but it has a set of features that I cannot find combined in a single PDA. It has:
The closest to what I want is the Handera (ex TRG) PDA, that has the compact flash slot, but it has no color screen. The Clie and Palm use those Memory Stick and SD/MMC respectively. And then, of course, there are the Casios and Compaqs who don't have PalmOS. Why can't they build such a simple handheld? In the meantime, I will wait to replace my old Palm III.
Whatever it is that comes on these shiny round things I get from the music store...that's the one I use.
Are you sure you don't mean "used to come on these shiny round things"? I, for one, don't know what they are selling on the CD stores these days, but I am sure many of these round things are not "Compact Disc Digital Audio"
Yup, right on there. And you should add that if they had a independent group that made the same discoveries at around the same time, and cannot show any prior art there is no advantadge to them, the patent goes to the first who fills it.
...is that we don't see this kind of thing everyday. I mean, who develops a great amount of new technology? Universities. I would say that they spend much more money on research than companies (granted: many companies pays big dollars to universities to do the research for them, in exchange of the patents). And who is always suing because of patent infringements? Companies.
There is something wrong here. It is the case that there are many more university patents out there, but they don't have the money to sue those who ingringe them, or it's the case that there are more company patents out there, in this case we should ask ourselves why universities are patenting so little. (Ok, one answer is that universities don't patent trivial stuff, while companies do it in order to obtain revenue from licensing and lawsuits instead of really developing products).
In any one of the two cases, there is something fundamentally wrong with this system, and it's not necessary to argue if our patent system is really fair to notice this.
Programming is engineering. Programming can *also* be art.
Elegance is art. Its all about how you define "art". When someone comes up with an ingenious way of doing something that there are very rigid rules to do it, without disobeying these rules but using them in an innovative way, I dont know how you call it, but I call art. It can be applied to any area of human knowledge, from painting to space shuttle building. Why do we insist that engineering and art cannot co-exist? Its interesting that Knuth called his book "The Art of Computer Programming", and then wrote thousand pages documenting programming. I take it as a good indication that art and engineering are not mutually exclusive.
I believe programming is both art and science. Like mathmatics. For one side it is obviously "science", but some people will never learn math, no matter the method you use to teach them. Some great mathematicians have a very unique way of approaching problems, and that is what makes them great mathematicians. Is it art? Maybe. About theoreticians, I agree 100% with you.
There is this great misconception that just because one is a great programmer he does not need real training as a computer scientist. This is due to the fact that most people think of a BS in CS as a formal education as a IT worker, so one who thinks he is a great programmer thinks that a BSCS wont really add anything usefull to him, except for the diploma.
The fact is that Computer Science is not only about becoming a IT worker. Its about using computers to solve problems, and about designing these computers to solve this problems. And about understanding and modeling the problems to begin with. There are actually great programmers who are mediocre computer scientists, great computer scientists who are mediocre programmers (usually of the thoretic cs kind), and great it workers who are great computer scientists (and really shitty programmers and Computer Scientists). And since these are different things, that is why it takes about 5 years to graduate a computer scientist.
Sometimes, a programmer who "learned CS" by his own, has acquired many bad habits that he would not have acquired if he had any formal training ("goto statement considered harmfull" comes to mind), and design rules, software engineering, etc. By the other side, self-learned IT professionals have a much more "getting the work done" attitude, and finding things out by himself, which is *extremely* usefull in industry.
So the idea is that one thing complements the other, and yes, it would be nice for anyone who works with technology without a formal training to really spend the time *learning* CS.
Just my 2c.
The fix was included somewhere before 2.4.16. It disables a single bit in a undocumented PCI register, fixing most problems.
For all those moderating the posts about setting up a RAID system as 'Redundant', please think first if such moderation is not 'Redundant' itself, since RAID is obviously 'Redundant'. Hmm. OK, it could be RAID-0, but noone is talking about stripping. :)
Not only you are right, but also any communication equipment connected to the phone network must be licensed by the local communications agency. This happens in many countries. Most of them will never bother to go after people connecting linmodems on the phone network, but some countries are very rigid in this control. This licensing, or approvement, must apply to the communication equipment as a whole. You can't license only the hardware part of software modems, since many times is the software that will decide the line levels to be used. (In Lucent winmodems, these levels are selected via AT commands, when you select the country you are in. This is done via software). This process is necessary to avoid people connecting devices to the phone network that could ruin the network.
So, in short, even if we don't worry with the patent issues of v.xx, we still have to worry on licensing the linmodem software, but since free software can always be modified, there will always have a non-approved version of it, which can cause legal problems.
Exactly. As long as they are distributing a new version, they should make the source available. If we reach the cold end of the universe, they do not need to provide further upgrades ;)
They provide it for the kernel, here, but they should always provide it. Not only for 6 months.
The product page says " 6 Month Linux DA O/S Software Upgrade", but if it's based on free software, I should always be able to download the latest source and install on the handheld, at least for the kernel, which is obviously GPLd.
Actually, you can use it, with ext2 *and* ext3. The ACL group implemented ACLs as extended attributes, that can also be used for metadata (icons, mime types, whatever):
Check out the ACL guys homepage for more details.
...their students inventions, they will not be motivated to have students to advice in the first place, and all innovation of the world, and civilization as we know it, will end.
</sarcasm>
...he just doesn not want to go to jail.
The way to deal with the DMCA is not to pretend it does not exists, but to show how ridiculous it is, and that means obeying it and showing how it limits development. You cannot think about computer security without considering the legal aspects. Of course full disclosure would be better, but at what price?
Cox could *actually* go to jail in his next visist to the USA in case he did it. (Think not? Dimitry also didn't believe it could happen.) I am sure you can get the information of what was changed in the kernel by other means (linux-kernel?), but it is very important to be registered in the log that we are being limited by the DMCA. I don't know, perhaps in a nicer future someone will look back at these logs and ask why he didn't describe the problems, and then they will remember how the abuse of corporate power has changed law in a uncostitutional and limiting way.
We are not talking about boys playing in a BBS, we are talking about real men with real families, people important in our community, that could go to jail because of stupid laws in the lack of this responsability.
I can already "drag and drop" files to a CDRW that will be read in Windows, MacOS, and Linux, with DirectCD, or packet-cd on Linux. Microsoft even wants to include CD writing tools in Windows, so I guess soon you will not even need DirectCD. The same goes to Apple. So why is this "revolutionary" new format necessary?
The same people who teach you how its dishonest to steal other peoples code, teach you how it is important "code reuse".
Most of the time, you will not have to come up with a very beautiful solution to a problem already solved, you will only have to find out which is the existent solution that best fits the problem. Thats what I use as a guide to my education, I try to learn the basic about a lot of things, so I know what to use when I have a problem. After all, one of the reasons of calling it computer *science* is because we stand on the shoulders of all who came before (most mathematicians, physicists, engineers) and improve the stuff they built.
My politics on "lending" code for classmates to use on university is as follows. I can give my code for you to take a look, as long as you will hear for me what I was thinking while I wrote it, and understand what I think is nice and what I think are hacks, and try to correct the hacks. Sometimes I check tasks based on code form me that are really nice some semesters later. It usually works, in that at least the person learns/knows how the code works. It is often said that the only way to learn a computer language is to write programs with it, but if you dont have good algorithms to implement in this language, your programs will suck. So I add that it is also important to check out other peoples code to see how they implemented theyr solutions. That is one of the most important aspects of free software, that is many times overlooked: education.
are to blame. oh, you said "token". Nevermind.
...to the father of the beutiful tennis player?
...I was stopped at JFK airport because they couldn't figure out what I was carrying. They could only see two almost empty boxes except for a very dark area on the X-Ray machine, and some wires coming out of it. They probably thought "someone set up us the bomb" (TM), but it actually was a pair of Labtec computer speakers. Very fine speakers, I use them since 95 without problems. But It really got me confused to explain to them what I was carrying. (english is not my native language). I also had a HD with me, but at my pocket not my backpack, so it didn 't go through the monitor, only the metal detector. Not any problem with it also, I still use it.
Could you imagine those mice up there on the moon with all that cheese around? That would mean the end of it!
...are inside attacks. That is, not to garantee that the system is immune to crackers, but that it is immune to attacks by the government. Unfortunately, we don't have that second garantee here in Brazil, where we had an election with 100% of electronic ballots last year. The worse is that government won't allow researchers to audit those ballots.
...also related to infrastructure, can be found here. It's so interesting to compare what both have done to the internet. ;)
Yes, the idea then is contact the FCC and tell them what Dolby means by "reasonable terms".